Plot summary of the movie: Sparta's Queen Gorgo tells her men relating the fight of Marathon in which King Darius of Persia was murder by General Themistocles of Athens. Xerxes son of Darius only one witnesses of his father's murder, and he advised to not continue the war since. Only the gods could defeat the Greeks. Naval commander Darius, Artemisia, claims that Darius last words were in fact a challenge and sends Xerxes on a journey through the desert. Xerxes lastly reaches a cave and bathes in an other worldly liquid, emerging as the God-King. He gone to Persia and declares war on Greece.
As Xerxes forces advance towards Themistocles, Thermopylae meets with the council and convinces them to provide him with a fleet to engage the Persians at sea. Themistocles after travels to Sparta to ask King Leonidas for help but he is notified by Dilios that Leonidas is consulting the Oracle and Gorgo is reluctant to side with Athens. Themistocles later reunites with his old friend Scyllas who infiltrated the Persian troops and learned Artemisia was born Greek but defected to Persia as her family was raped and murdered by Greek hoplites and she was taken as a sex slave to the Greeks who left her for murder in the streets. She was rescued and adopted by the Persians. Her lust for vengeance gained the attention of King Darius and he made her a naval commander later she murder many of his enemies.
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